A friend who teaches typography to undergraduates recently asked an unexpected favor: “can my students browse the e-mails Hoefler & Co. sends out?” Apparently he’s in the habit of circulating printouts with his students, when they raise questions that we’ve recently discussed with our readers — how to choose fonts for information-heavy projects like annual reports being an especially hot topic, though he also encourages his students to dig deeply in the character sets of their fonts, and to look for value when building their own font libraries. So posted herewith is last month’s e-mail, at the bottom of which you’ll find a link to the previous issue. And if you’d like to get next month’s, we encourage you to...